No - we are allowed two bucks - but the emphasis for a special buck (my fault and my son’s fault), has taken a lot of the fun out of it. I have plenty of smaller bucks we could shoot without affecting the number of larger bucks at all. It is pretty easy to tell, here, since they are at their peak at four or five. It is not like a 3 yr old 7 pt is going to make a 140” four yr old.
But I dont know how the grand daughters will adjust. All their young lives they have had this “big buck” or go home hunting practice thrown at them. While we usually kill a 140” deer every year - 350 acres will only produce so many big bucks - not enough to go around. Me, my wife, and my son dont shoot one so we can “save” it for someone else. The big buck syndrome has tainted our hunting - made it boring. I need to get some excitement back in our deer hunts.